Description: Christian Dugast, multilingual French citizen, was born in
1960. He received the Diploma and the Ph.D. degree in "Computer
Science" from the University of Toulouse (France), respectively in
1983 and 1987. In 1989 he joined Philips Research Laboratories in
Germany as Research Scientist to work on continuous speech
recognition. He has been responsible for benchmarking Philips
technology on the ARPA "North American Business news" task. He has
been appointed Deputy Group Leader in 1993. In 1995, he left research
to enter the business world within Philips Speech Processing business
unit as the Product Manager of the telephony platform called
SpeechMania, to follow on 2 years later as Innovation Manager.
In 1998, he joined the silicon-valley start-up company Nuance
Communications as Director of the European Operations in Paris to
build up the market in Europe. From 2002 on he is Head of Business
Development of the start up OneBridge AG in Germany that develops
and markets Speech Application Development Tools in order to
accelerate the introduction of Speech Recognition and Understanding
in the market. Since 2006 he is consultant for new high tech companies